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Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails


On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:51:44PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> Sigh.  If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode
>> mounts at all.  I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it.
>
>Full ACK!  Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the project
>already long ago and they probably don't even know anymore what that should
>have been good for.

Ditto.  If I was designing this from scratch, I would have avoided
textmode mounts and not made stat() of a 'foo' find 'foo.exe'.

cgf

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